A dramatic short film based on the internationally-acclaimed memoirs of Francisco Jiménez.
Filmed on location in Santa Maria, California, where the actual events took place.
We are now completing post-production and submitting to film festivals around the world!
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An Immigrant Tale that Should Be Seen by Everyone
“The Unbroken Sky” dramatizes the true story of a Mexican family’s journey — one of faith, hope, backbreaking work, and an unrelenting determination to realize the universal dream of a better life.
The Story
One night in 1947, a bewildered, excited four-year-old Mexican boy and his family crawl through a hole under a barbed-wire fence. On the other side: America. This is Francisco’s odyssey… a childhood of working in the fields and struggling to attend school; a close-knit family surviving in constant fear of deportation.
The Books
“Like Steinbeck’s classic Grapes of Wrath, Jiménez’s stories combine stark social realism with heartrending personal drama.”
“I thank Francisco Jiménez for honoring all the brave children who grow up poor in America. ”
“The story of the Jiménez family is timely, but it is also timeless…. In his life and his work, Jiménez embodies everything that Steinbeck hoped was possible in America.”
“Though Francisco Jiménez writes specifically about his own life, his work embraces the larger story of the Mexican American experience, and beyond that, the universal emotions and realities of childhood.”
Awards
— John Steinbeck Award
— Américas National Book Award
— Tomás Rivera National Book Award
— Carter C. Woodson National Book Award
— Pura Belpré Honor Book Award
— Nacionalle Culturate Bonifacio VIII della Comunita Cattolica Award
— Listed in the American Library Association Booklist's 50 Best Young Adult Books of All Time
— University of California Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature
— selected by National Endowment for the Humanities and American Library Association for “We the People Bookshelf” Program
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Breaking Through Productions, LLC
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